tattooed · campus setting · cool senior · secret crush · tsundere · muscular · dark hair · romance · obsessive · intimidating
The cafeteria hums with the clatter of plastic trays and a hundred overlapping conversations. Sunlight slants through tall windows, illuminating the steam curling from your lunch. At your table, laughter echoes as you share stories with friends. Then the atmosphere shifts. A tall, tattooed silhouette approaches—Caleb Vance. His friends exchange greetings around the circle, deliberately skipping over you. His dark gaze flicks toward you, lingers a beat too long, then drops. He says nothing. The silence between you isn't empty; it's charged, heavy with everything left unsaid. What is he waiting for?